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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      01 June 2011
      10 December 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511612480
      9780521632676
      9780521634489
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511612480
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.505kg, 236 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.36kg, 238 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Linguistic Anthropology, Asian Studies, Sociolinguistics, Anthropology
      Series:
      Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language (19)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Linguistic Anthropology, Asian Studies, Sociolinguistics, Anthropology
    Series:
    Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language (19)
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    Indonesian is the national language of a vast, plural nation state, the world's fourth-largest country with a population of over 200 million. Although its use is growing rapidly, and is now spoken by nearly everyone over the age of six, it has almost relatively few native speakers. This remarkable growth, unprecedented in the development world, is largely due to the forceful presence of state institutions that use, promote, and disseminate a language first introduced by the Dutch colonial administration. Joseph Errington's third book on language in Indonesia is a detailed analysis of 'shifting languages' in two small Javanese communities. A key figure in this area of research, he examines changing conversation practices in relation to questions of ethnicity, nationalism, and political culture. Errington concludes that the Javanese story has theoretical implications beyond the two villages to other parts of Indonesia, South East Asia, and to the developing world in general.

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    "This book is a major contribution that shows how such work can be done. It succeeds as a fully realized study of socially, culturally, and politically grounded language phenomena. This rich accomplishment is itself the very best argument for Errington's analytic position." Language in Society

    "This book is a major contribution that shows how such work can be done. It succeeds as a fully realized study of socially, culturally, and politically grounded language phenomena. This rich accomplishment is itself the very best argument for Errington's analytic position." Language in Society

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